I love old Looney Toons cartoons. Kids these days don’t know what they are missing. My favorite moments were when Wyle E. Coyote would have a big flat rock ready to tip off the cliff when Road Runner tripped the trap. Inevitably, the rock would not tip, Wyle E. would go down to check, and Road Runner would step out on the rock, tipping it on over on the poor Coyote, who was really the victim in every episode, you know!

Sometimes life is like that boulder. It’s at the tipping point and taking on one more thing will throw us off balance and wreck everything. We think the problem is that “one more thing,” but that’s a fallacy. The problem is that we’re at the tipping point already. If one more thing pushes us over the edge, we were really too close to the edge.

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This past Sunday I preached from the fourth commandment, which is really two commandments in one: 1.) work six days, and 2.) rest one. We explored the extreme views on sabbatarian doctrine - legalism which asserts we must keep every point of the Old Testament sabbath laws and liberalism which ignores the underlying sabbath principles altogether. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »